#Grand hotel gifs

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Some of my favorite Garbo costumes from her films. part 2/1

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John Barrymore in Grand Hotel (1932)

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Greta Garbo, born Greta Gustafsson 119 years ago on September 18th ❤️

When Greta was born, [her father] Karl’s employer offered to adopt her to ease their poverty. Anna [her mother] refused. If God sent us a child, she said, he will provide bread. […]

What can be concluded about Garbo’s childhood? Was it a joyful time, as she played sports, produced plays, and led the neighborhood gang in mischief? Was it gloomy, filled with violence? Cecil Beaton asked her those questions and recorded her answers: “She talked about her youth and how unhappy she was. I interjected: But you’ve always told me you were such a tomboy and had so much fun leading the other children into mischief. She replied: ‘Cecil Beaton, how can you say such things! There are 365 days in the year!’” Garbo’s reply to Beaton’s question sounds like Garbo at her humorous best, using irony to avoid a direct answer. She probably found her childhood both happy and harrowing; both these reactions colored her later life. But its traumas never left her. She couldn’t stand quarreling, and she trained herself to remain calm when disagreements arose. There was also her terrible fear of strangers, not only in crowds but also in intimate settings. As she aged, books with violence in them frightened her. She always felt as though she was running away from someone or something. These aspects of her character sound like holdovers from a violent experience as a child. Yet, she could be playful and jokey, childlike and joyful. And she could take problems in stride. When a group of fans mobbed her after the opening of Camille in 1936, she wrote to her mentor and close friend Salka Viertel, “I guess I can’t complain. After all, I’m just a circus lady.” She included in the letter a picture she had drawn of herself as a tightrope walker, with a parasol in one hand.

Ideal Beauty: the Life and Times of Greta Garbo by Lois W. Banner

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Joan Crawford in Grand Hotel (1932)

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Joan Crawford

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That's why Alfredo will assist him.

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NAOMI CAMPBELL

"MAASAI" COLLECTION

CHRISTIAN DIOR HC SS 1997

BY JOHN GALLIANO

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Greta Garbo and her letterboxd reviews {pt. 3}

[pt.1] [pt.2]

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Joan Crawford x Grand Hotel (1932)

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Happy 37th Birthday Freddie Stroma! ❤️

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Greta Garbo as Grusinskaya in Grand Hotel (1932) directed by Edmund Goulding.

"In early 1932, Garbo played a fading ballerina in an episode of Grand Hotel. It was the first Hollywood film with several stars in the same movie, each with a dif­ferent story, all staying at Berlin’s Grand Hotel. It launched a popular film genre—the all-star movie. Garbo is surprisingly persuasive as the ballerina. She wears a tutu, although she doesn’t dance en pointe, and her love scenes with the aging John Barrymore are campy. But she pronounced her famous line “I want to be alone” in the film. Producers often had stars refer to their off-screen lives in their films to promote interest in them as personalities, encouraging audience members to identify with their favorite stars, whose lives were detailed in the movie fan magazines." (Ideal Beauty: The Life and Times of Greta Garbo)

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Greta Garbo in Grand Hotel (1932)

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THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (2014) dir. Wes Anderson